Handle for jacks or the like



June 24, 1924. 1,498,602

J.-A. ADELL HANDLE FOR SACKS" OR was LIKE Filed June 1; 1923 Patented June 24, 1924.

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JOHN A. ADELL, OF ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS, A$SIGNOR TO ADELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

HANDLE FOR JACKS OR THE LIKE.

Application filed June 1, 1923. Serial No. 642,845.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. ADELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orange, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have-invented a new and useful Handle for Jacks or the like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a handle capable of use for many purposes, but especially adapted for application to an automobile jack.

The principal objects of the invention are to provide a handle that can be made by ordinary bending processes from sheet metal and yet will have a maximum of strength and lightness; and to provide it in such form that it can be telescoped and adjusted in length and operated in any adjusted position at its extremes or intermediate between them. The invention also involves other features and advantages as will ap pear.

Reference is to be'had to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a side view=of a jack with a handle thereon constituting a preferred em bodiment of this invention;

Fig. 2 is a side view of the handle contracted to its shortest length and on enlarged scale;

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan View of the same; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line H of Fig. 2 on further enlarged scale.

In the form shown the handle consists of two parts, a shank 10 and a hand grip 11. The part 10 is formed of sheet metal simply bent into U-shape and open at one side, preferably the lower side. This is a substantially straight bar in this form, but its extreme end 12 is offset slightly so that when this end is set into the socket 13 of the jack 1 1, the shank will extend slightly upwardly from the center line of the socket. On the other end this shank 10 is provided with an integral stop 15 for a purpose to be described.

The other part 11 of the handle also of sheet metal bent into U-shape form, but it is provided in a larger form so that it fits the exterior of the shank 10 and receives it. At the inner end the sides of this U-shape form are bent around under to form two flanges 16 in the same plane, constituting guides in which the fiat bottom surfaces of the two walls of the shank 10 are adapted to rest. While these guides can be bent in for any ,desired length along the hand grip 11, for the sake of lightness, I have shown them as short. I have inclined the sides of the hand grip 11 in such a manner that the handle grows shallower as we approach its outer end, so that at its end it consists of a single flat plate 17. At the other end 12 I have shown two stops 18 to form a stop forpreventing the two parts coming apart. These are put in after the parts are assembled. It will be seen that the stop 15 comes against the end of one guide 16 when the handle is extended and prevents the parts being disconnected by pulling them too far apart while the stops 18 prevent their separation in the other direction.

It will be seen that this handle can be used either in its fully extended position, or in its contracted position, or in any intermediate position. This makes it Very convenient for the motorist as he can put the end 12 into the socket 13 and pull the hand grip 11 as far out as he may desire to get it in convenient position and to secure what leverage he needs. At the same time it will be seen that this hand grip 11 is made as light as possible by inclining the bottoms of the sides and that the inner part or shank 10 is uniform all the way from the stop 15 to the projection 12. In this way the two parts are accurately guided with respect to each other nomatter how they are adjusted. The parts are light, durable and very inexpensive to manufacture. It collapses for shipment and storage and occupies no more room than an ordinary handle of half its length, yet it is as strong as a pipe handle of the same. length.

Although I have illustrated and described only a single form of this invention and shown it as applied only to a jack, I am aware of the fact that it can be applied to other articles, and that modifications can be made in the details of construction without departing from the scope of the invention as expressed in the claims. Therefore I do not wish to be limited to all the details of constructions herein shown and described, but what I do claim is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a telescoping jack handle comprising a shank of U-shape cross-section uniform from end to end and having an end adapted to fit in a socket, and a hand grip of general Ushape form having a portion surrounding the shank with flanges integral therewith extending inwardly toward each other for fitting under the bottoms of the sides of the shank and constituting a support and guide therefor.

2. As an article of manufacture, a jack handle comprising a shank having a projection adapted to fit in a socket, and a hand grip having a portion surrounding the shank with flanges extending inwardly toward, each other for fitting under the shank and constituting a support and guide therefor said hand grip being of triangular shape in side elevationand having at one end a bent down portion constituting a stop to limit the telescoping movement of the hand grip p0rtion over the shank.

3. As an article of manufacture a hand e comprising a sheet metal shank bent into U-shape form and open on the lower side, and provided with a stop at one end of the lower side, a hand grip consisting of a single piece of sheet metal bent into U-shape form at one end and surrounding the shank at that end and provided with flanges extending under the bottom of the shank to guide and support the same and to engage the stop on the end of the shank and prevent thetwo parts from being disconnected, the other end of the shank having a stop for engaging the end of the hand grip and preventing their being separated in the other direction.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

JOHN A. ADELLG 

